Improved boat-detaching tackle



@uitrit tstes @anni @frn JAMES R.. TAYLOR, OF NEW YORK, Nv. Y.

' Lamas Pataat Na. 61,279, daad Jaaaaay 15, 1867.

IMPROVED OAT-DETAGHING TAGKLE.

T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JAMES R. TAYLOR, of the city, county, and State of New York,'have invented certain new and useful improvements in Apparatus for Detaching Boats; and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciii cation, in Which- Figure I represents a longitudinal vertical section through a boat suspended by my apparatus, the devices being shown in full and in side elevation.

Figure 2 represents a top plan of a fragmentary portion of the same.

Similar letters of reference, where they occur in the separate figures, denote like parts in both of them.

This invention relates to a series of links, levers, and connecting-rods, for operating the disconnecting pivoted hooks over which the rings in the davit-blocks take, and by whichthe boat is suspended or held.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and Yuse my invention, I will proceed to describe the same withA reference to the drawings.

In the centre of the boat A, and say at the central seat B, therein, there is a vertical 'shaft or windlass, 0

with a lever, D, passed through its top, by which it may be turned. On this windlass or shaft C, below the seat, are two arms, a a', diametrically opposite each other, but a little skewed from the centre line of theboat,

vso as not to have any dead-point, which would cause them to work hard. To these arms are connected respectively the rods b b', which unite at c c' to the levers d d', which are pivoted to the bottom of the boat, as at e e. To the tops of these levers d d are connected the rods or links ff', which unite with the bent and pivoted levers g g', said levers having upon their farther projecting or free ends, dead-eyes h h', through which the bent hooks or bolts z" pass, said hooks or bolts being pivoted at jj to the holding-heads k k. When the rings of thedavitblocks are passed over the hooks cr bolts z' i, and the ends of these hooks or bolts inserted inthe dead-eyes hh', of the bent pivoted levers gg', the boat will be rmly suspended or held thereby. When the boat's to be disconnected, the operator seizes the lever D, and giving the windlass C a quarter turn, cr thereabouts, the ends of the bent levers ggf are thrown down, releasing the hooks or bolts it", which turn upon their pivots, and the.

boat is free.

Having thus fully described my invention, I would state that I do not claim the hook, that being patented.

to Brown and Level on the 4th December, 1866; but what I do claim therein as new,'and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Combining with the central windlass or shaft C, and the hooks or bolts z' i', at the ends of the boat, the

rods, levers, and links b b', d d', f', and g g,for connecting and detaching boats, substantially as herein described,

and represented.

JAMES R. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

A. B. SToUGHroN, Emu. F. BROWN. 

